Latest news with #MichaelIanBlack
CNN
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
CNN Renews 'Have I Got News For You' For a Third Season
May 14th, 2025 SERIES PRODUCED BY HAT TRICK PRODUCTIONS FOR CNN ORIGINALS NEW YORK – (May 14, 2025) – CNN announced today that Have I Got News For You has been renewed for a third season. The American version of the long-running UK comedy series is hosted by Roy Wood Jr. along with team captains Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black. Produced by Hat Trick Productions for CNN Originals, the third season of Have I Got News for You premieres Saturday, September 6 at 9pm ET/PT on CNN. 'Now that we know that none of us will be Pope, we proudly announce our return for Season 3 of Have I Got News For You this fall,' said Wood Jr., Ruffin and Black in a joint statement. ' Have I Got News For You continues to serve as a humorous reprieve for audiences on Saturday nights without ever losing its bite,' said Amy Entelis, executive vice president of talent, CNN Originals and creative development for CNN Worlwide. 'The continued success of our Saturday primetime lineup shows that topical entertainment programming is resonating with CNN viewers.' CNN will also expand its Have I Got News For You brand with a new multiplatform approach, including a companion CNN Podcast that will launch this summer. For exclusive show content, follow @HIGNFYUS on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and X. 'We're pleased and proud that CNN have asked us to come back and find what's funny in the news on Saturdays this Fall,' said Jimmy Mulville, executive producer for Hat Trick Productions. Always relevant and of-the-moment, Have I Got News For You serves up a smart and edgy take on the news of the week, as the comic trio guides a rotating collection of guests through an array of games and quick-witted panel conversations that test their knowledge of current events. Joining CNN's encore presentation of Real Time with Bill Maher , the network's Saturday primetime lineup of topical entertainment programming has made CNN a top cable destination on Saturday nights. Notable guests from season two of Have I Got News For You included Representative Jasmine Crockett, Representative Ro Khanna, Representative Mike Lawler, Tim Ryan, George Wallace, George Conway, Alyssa Farrah Griffin, Andy Richter, Nimesh Patel, Alex Edelman, Dave Foley, Eugene Mirman and more. All episodes of Have I Got News For You are available to stream now on Max. Have I Got News For You is executive produced by Jim Biederman, Jimmy Mulville and Richard Wilson for Hat Trick Productions. ### About CNN Originals The CNN Originals group develops, produces and acquires original, long-form unscripted programming for CNN Worldwide. Amy Entelis, executive vice president of talent, CNN Originals and creative development, oversees the award-winning CNN Originals portfolio that includes the following premium content brands: CNN Original Series, CNN Films, CNN Flashdocs, and CNN Studios. Since 2012, the team has overseen and executive produced more than 45 multi-part documentary series and 60 feature-length documentary films, earning more than 110 awards and 445 nominations for the cable network, including CNN Films' first Academy Award® for Navalny . Acclaimed titles include the Peabody Award winning and 13-time Emmy® Award-winning Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ; five time Emmy® nominee, Apollo 11 , directed by Todd Douglas Miller; Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid directed by Matt Tyrnauer; Emmy® nominated Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico ; the Emmy® Award-nominated 'Decades Series': The Sixties , The Seventies , The Eighties , The Nineties , The 2000s , and The 2010s, executive produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman; The Last Movie Stars , directed by Ethan Hawke about the lives and careers of actors and humanitarians Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman; the Emmy® Award winning Little Richard: I Am Everything , directed by Lisa Cortés; Luther Vandross: Never Too Much , directed by Dawn Porter; The Many Lives of Martha Stewart ; Primetime Emmy® and duPont-Columbia Award-winning, RBG , directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen; See It Loud: The History of Black Television , executive produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter; Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight in partnership with the BBC; the Producers Guild Award and three-time Emmy® Award-winning Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy ; T his is Life with Lisa Ling ; BAFTA nominee and Directors Guild Award winner, Three Identical Strangers , directed by Tim Wardle; the five-time Emmy® Award-winning United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell ; the American version of the long-running UK comedy series, Have I Got News For You , hosted by Roy Wood Jr; and the five-time Emmy® Award-winning The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper . CNN Originals can be seen on CNN, the CNN Original Hub on Max and discovery+, the CNN Originals FAST channel, and for pay TV subscription via CNN apps and cable operator platforms. About Hat Trick Productions Hat Trick Productions is one of the UK's leading independent production and distribution companies, co-founded and run by Jimmy Mulville. For over 30 years Hat Trick has been producing critically and commercially successful content for outlets in the US and UK. Hit shows include Whose Line Is It Anyway? (ABC/CW) Episodes (BBC/Showtime) and Derry Girls (Netflix/Channel 4). Have I Got News For You is the UK's longest-running comedy show, now in its 35th year and winner of every major British television award. CNN Originals Press Contacts:
Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Michael Ian Black talks Savannah, ‘Have I Got News For You'
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — Comedian Michael Ian Black, best known for 'Have I Got News For You' is no stranger to Savannah. The 'Wet Hot American Summer' actor tours as a comedian but lives in the Hostess City, thanks in large part to his son once attending the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD). Black, at one time a Connecticut resident, was first tipped off to the Coastal Empire after a Zillow search. 'Savannah was on the list,' Black said. 'Our son was already going to school here, so I just went on Zillow and I was like, What's for sale in Savannah? And then we saw something and then we bought it a week later.' This was after his son was enrolled in the school. Black has lived here ever since, and every once in a while shares his talent with the community. In December, he recited Truman Capote's 'A Christmas Memory' at the Old Dairy Farm, hosted by the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home Museum. Soon after that reading, it was announced that his latest role as a panelist on CNN's 'Have I Got News For You' would continue, with season two premiering on Feb. 15. The comedy show hosted by 'Daily Show' alum Roy Wood Jr. combines game show and panel chat show for a new formula that turns dishing on topical subjects into play. Black is a regular on the panel along with comedian, talk show host and 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' writer Amber Ruffin. Black and Ruffin are joined by two guest panelists apiece, divided into 'Micheal's Team' and 'Amber's Team.' The formula is not new, but it has only recently made its debut in the United States. 'The show was created 35 years ago,' said Black. 'It's been running in the U.K. for decades. So, I don't know what the impetus was. And I know they'd been trying to bring it over here for several years. I was actually involved in one of those efforts, I mean, I feel like over ten years ago, and I didn't even remember that I had been involved in one of those efforts until I came back to do it this time. And the executive producer and producer reminded me that I had been I had done a pilot of this show already, and I had forgotten. But I think the real question is why did CNN choose to take this show as it was? You really it's not just like, let's put some funny pictures up and do some things. It's you've got some researchers and some producers that are pretty politically savvy, right?' 'Have I Got News For You' skewers the current Trump administration, a task that in a time of intense political volatility, Black says it is harder than you think. 'There's two problems that we're dealing with,' said Black. 'The first is that none of us find what's happening funny, like when we're not backstage, just like slapping our knees at the news cycle. I would I don't want to say it feels existential, but it's not that far off from being existential. And then the second problem is because certain individuals in our government are dominating, they essentially are competing for every last molecule of oxygen that we have.' Despite this, Black insists that the weekly show offers a range of opinions, particularly from guest panelists. While the hosts lean liberal in their ideologies, guests such as Republican U.S. Representatives Mike Lawler (NY-13) and Tim Burchett (TN-02) have brought an opposing viewpoint to the panel. 'The way I look at it is if we're inviting you on to this show, it is akin to inviting you to our home,' Black said. While Black insists on inviting others into his TV home, he remains welcomed in the Savannah community that he continues to call home. 'Have I Got News For You' airs Sunday nights on CNN at 9:00 p.m. ET, and each episode can be viewed on Max. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
